Guiding you on your writing journey

Writing in English in a sea of Hebrew can feel isolating, with few avenues for honing craft, experimenting with genre, and meeting local writers writing in English.

​WriteSpace Jerusalem offers community and a wide array of quality writing workshops and master classes showcasing talented writers from Israel and abroad, with a view to nurturing English-language writing in Israel.

Choose areas of interest, from fiction, poetry,memoir andblogging, to build a program tailored to your needs.

​What would you like to see on offer?Contact us and we'll try to make it happen.

What people are saying about WriteSpace Jerusalem...

​'I must tell you how excited I am about WriteSpace Jerusalem. I've published before, and have a writing group, but the ongoing support of this diverse writing community is just what I need for my creative/memoir pieces. It's simply wonderful that the English writing voices join together for this.' - R.W.

'​As always, a big thank you to Nadia for facilitating the workshop. Your knack for knowing who and what will motivate writers in formation repeatedly astounds.' - P.T.

We've created a program especially for teens and "almost teens". We'll introduce teens to a wide variety of genres and nurture their writing through exposure to talented writers from Israel and abroad.

What patterns can we see and which do we make invisible, as we classify and categorize, tell stories and make lists that offer structure and meaning to the raw materials of our experience? What would less organization or different organization look like?

In this workshop, we will think about organization from a literary/creative point of view through analysis of narratives and guided writing exercises.

Texts may include selections from Natalia Ginzburg, Ann Patchett, Rebecca Mead, and will be sent to participants two weeks before the seminar.

How do you start?What do you choose to write about?How do you "find" a poem?

This intensive workshop will focus on writing from the ordinary - using the domestic and natural spaces around us - as well as turning to other poets to be our teachers and guides. We will do exercises to sharpen our "poetic eye" and examine how others have tackled these questions before us.

Open to writers of all genres who want to explore the practice of poetry.

Past Seminars & Workshops

Do you have a box of old family photographs,a bundle of family letters, or stacks of family documents that you want to “do something with?”

Based on her experience of writing her memoirJumping Over Shadows, the story of German-Jewish love that overcame the burdens of the past, author Annette Gendler will lead a workshop presenting approaches to creating compelling stories from family history.

Poetry Workshop (advanced)with award-winning poet Jane Medved

Join award-winning poet Jane Medved in a series of 6 workshops, in which we will examine various techniques to outwit our rational brain and “write ahead of our conscious minds."

​We will study the techniques of other writers and put into practice the art of startling ourselves. Class time will be spent on editing and refining our own poems, as well as generating new material. This workshop is for writers with experience.

​The Torah is said to have been written as black fire on white fire. We will be dealing with the realm of the white fire, the spaces between the words.

Since no text can fully delineate every aspect of the story, readers become part of the creative process, constantly filling in the gaps with their own contexts — things seen, felt, experienced, and read. Bibliotherapy deals with the ways in which we fill in these gaps. ​